Research Catalog

Title

Walk tall : the music & life of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley / Cary Ginell ; with a foreword by Quincy Jones.

Author

Ginell, Cary

Publication

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, 2013.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Jones, Quincy, 1933-

Description

xvii, 190 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"Cannonball Adderley introduces his 1967 recording of Walk Tall, by saying, "There are times when things don't lay the way they're supposed to lay. But regardless, you're supposed to hold your head up high and walk tall." This sums up the life of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, a man who used a gargantuan technique on the alto saxophone, pride in heritage, devotion to educating youngsters, and insatiable musical curiosity to bridge gaps between jazz and popular music in the 1960s and '70s. His career began in 1955 with a Cinderella-like cameo in a New York nightclub, resulting in the jazz worlds looking to him as "the New Bird," successor to the late Charlie Parker. But Adderley refused to be typecast. His work with Miles Davis on the landmark Kind of Blue album helped further his reputation as a unique stylist, but Adderley's greatest fame came with his own quintet's breakthrough engagement at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop in 1959, which launched the popularization of soul jazz in the 1960s. With his loyal brother Nat by his side, along with stellar sidemen such as keyboardist Joe Zawinul, Adderley used an engaging, erudite personality as only Duke Ellington had done before him. All this and more are captured in this engaging read by author Cary Ginell." --Publisher description.

Series Statement

The Hal Leonard jazz biography series

Subject

• Adderley, Cannonball
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cannibal -- A New York minute -- The new Bird -- Milestone -- Cannonball on a roll -- Kind of blue -- Cannonball takes charge -- Spontaneous combustion -- Work song -- A very important cat -- Onska -- Olga -- The cannonball express -- An assault on the tyranny of style -- The club -- Welcome to Club Capitol -- Accent on Africa -- Country preacher -- The black messiah -- As ambient as all hell -- With his hammer in his hand -- Big man.

ISBN

• 9781458419798 (pbk.)
• 1458419797 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012048395

OCLC

• 809029252
• SCSB-10362667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library